GeForce GTX 295 review - BFG -
GTX 295 Chipset Features

A 289 Watt peak power consumption. That is a lot of power you are consuming though, which you can frown upon. There are obviously also a couple of very interesting positives.

You are adding a MASSIVE amount of horse power to your PC. Seriously it's even a little crazy when you think about it. You have 2x 240 shader processor cores inside one graphics card, and as our previously published GTX 260/280 SLI results were already showing... that's a rather incredible amount of horsepower. The fun thing with the product now is that with that much power you can also have it handle future PhysX titles really easily without dedicating a GPU to PhysX, yet keep the raw horsepower the card really has. Heck, the more effects a game has, the better.

Some GeForce GTX 295 facts.

Fabricated on a 55nm production node

Two GTX 200 GPUs

Accumulated 480 shader processors

576 MHz Core Clock frequency

1242 MHz Shader domain frequency

999 MHz DDR3 Memory frequency

2x 896 MB of memory = 1792 MB = 1.8 GB

So in layman's terms this graphics card has the memory configuration of the GTX 260, but the raw shader power of the GTX 280. And these two are then multiplied by a factor of two.

Some of you might wonder why NVIDIA decided not to use GDDR5 memory on this product, and that is a very valid question. Fact is that the GTX 200 memory controllers simply do not support GDDR5. So expect GDDR5 integration into the next generation GeForce graphics products.

GeForce9800 GTX

GeForce GTX260 Core 216

GeForce GTX280

GeForce GTX295

Stream (Shader) Processors

128

216

240

240x2

Core Clock (MHz)

675

576

602

576

Shader Clock (MHz)

1675

1242

1296

1242

Memory Clock (MHz) x2

1100

999

1053

999

Memory amount

512 MB

896 MB

1024 MB

1792 MB

Memory Interface

256-bit

448-bit

512-bit

448-bit x2

HDCP

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Two Dual link DVI

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

We can already tell you that we were at the very least impressed by its cooling. Face it, two GPUs generate a lot of heat, especially with a dual PCB design and a 289W TDP.

The cooling solution is, according to NVIDIA, capable of dissipating more than 289 watts of power. Compared to the 9800 GX2 you can spot the differences as you'll notice the sturdy meshed metal plating, which has a nice soft black finished look. Overall the cooling unit should be able to show gains up to 40, maybe 50% in cooling over the older solutions. And it looks and feels great.

Over the next couple of pages we'll dive into a photo shoot where I'll tell you a bit more about design, connectivity. After the photo shoot we'll take eight of the latest and hottest games and benchmark this new graphics card to observe where it stands in terms of overall performance opposed to the current competition. But not before you have seen a photo of the actual NVIDIA reference product.

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